We Believe In Transforming How
Languages Are Taught

Two friends were working on a robot project, somewhere in Canada. Étienne Bouchard and François Larochelle had the idea to develop point-of-sale robots that interacted with clients in retail stores. 

Just shortly after they started their company (Robotel), the education system in Quebec started using personal computers in schools and they were in desperate need of a classroom management platform. Believing strongly in the importance of quality education, Étienne and François shifted their focus to develop their first Microselect solution.

Over the next couple of years, Robotel grew quickly, with many of the first employees still working for the company today! Subsidiaries in other regions, such as the US, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia were established so that educational institutions all over the world could benefit from the classroom management platforms developed.

The very first version of our renowned SmartClass software was introduced to the world.

The focus of the company has been the support of language teachers, coaches, and instructors in their classrooms and students at home by allowing BYOD, enabling Wifi, providing both Android and iOS apps, supporting sign language, and launching the SCX (a service for school-to-school exercise sharing).

Robotel also released its very first content. Let’s Talk! English is a complete curriculum based on the CEFR framework for language teaching.

At that point, Robotel had grown not only within the technology and sales departments but also started to hire some of the teachers that had been using their SmartClass Software in their own classrooms. These teachers became authors of Let’s Talk! English. That is why we pride ourselves on having designed a full digital English curriculum BY teachers FOR teachers.

Over 10,000 installations of our SmartClass have taken place in over 89 countries worldwide. And we are not done yet! Constantly improving our software is very important to us. After the first “facelift," we are still working on adding features to both the student and teacher interfaces. 

We added a C-level book to our English curriculum series that is focused on writing skills while still giving plenty of speaking and listening opportunities to students.

Besides our English content, we have developed beginner through intermediate curricula for German and Spanish. Teachers will love these curricula since they will supplement and complement their current teaching materials with lots of individual speaking and listening practice while offering 50% of activities that are automatically graded.

Our Content Team has created a supplemental student resource book for our English curriculum.

Teachers can now learn everything they need to know about teaching with SmartClass by completing our SmartClass Academy.

We launched administrator, teacher, and student-level reporting. The reporting feature enables teachers to effortlessly monitor and track students' progress across all language learning skill levels.

SmartClass is now integrated into Google Classroom.

Nexus Arabic has been launched using SmartClass to provide teachers with Pre-A1 and A1 curricula.

We introduced a specialized placement test to assess students' proficiency levels and assign them to the appropriate level within our comprehensive English curriculum.

We launched our official SmartClass by Robotel Account Portal (for cloud users), designed to provide teachers with one single login for teachers, all resources on hand, no bookmarking required anymore!

Guided AI-Conversations, additional cloud services, and more activities featuring auto-creation and auto-grading will enhance the SmartClass solution in the future!